Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-07-23
SUNDAY EASY CHAIR.

SUNDAY EASf CHALK.
BRINGING OUR sHEAvEs WITH Us.
The time for toll is past. and night has come
The last and saddest of the harvest-eves;
Worn out with labor long and wearisome,
Dropping and faint, the reapers hasten home,
Each laden with his sheayes-
Last of the laborers thy feet gain,
Lord of the harvest and my spirit grieyes
That am burdened not SO much with grain
As with heaviness of heart and brain =
Master, behold my sheaves
Few, light, and worthless-yet their trifing
weight
Through all my frame weary aching leaves:
For long struggled with my hapless fate,
And staid and toiled till it was dark and late
Yet these are all my sheayes.
Full well know 1 have more tares than wheat;
Brambles and flowers, dry stalks and with
cred leaves;
Wherefore blush and weep. as at thy feet
| kneel down reyerently, and repeat
Master, behold my sheaves i
l know these blossoms. clustering heavily
With evening dew upon their folded leaves,
Can claim no value nor utility;
Therefore shall fragrancy and beauty be
The glory of my sheayes
So do gather strength and hope anew;
For well know Thy patient love perceiveS
Not what did, but what strove TO do;
And though the full, ripe ears be sadly few,
Thou wilt accept my sheaves
Il. Il. Z. tstIS.
There has been for quite time past
strong contest within the ranks of the
Congregational churches at the East con-
cerning the" new theology" for which the
professors at Andover, Mass, claim dis
covery and leading advocacy. 1t has been
variously denominated as "Andover
Theology" al the New Theology" "New-
est Orthodoxy" Probation after Death
and "Second Probation Theology" etc
Probably no subject upon which no one
absolutely knows anything, and dare not
claim that they do, was ever favored and
opposed with. more satisfied assurances and
tenacity than has this been upon both
sides. The following by Rev DR.. Lyman
Abbott, editor Of the Christian Union, gives
with conciseness the different views held
upon the point involved and will be of in
terest:
There are in the Puritan Church three
schools of theology; The Old Orthodoxy,
the New Orthodoxy, and the Newest Or
thodoxy. The Old Orthodoxy holds that
God has chosen from eternity an elect
number, including certain elect infants, to
be saved, and has provided for their saliva
ton; that He has chosen another repro
bate number, perhaps including certain
reprobate infants, TO be eternally lost that
the damnation of the reprobate and the
salvation of the elect are equally for His
glory; and that the heather who have
never heard of the Gospel are among those
chosen for damnation For it holds that
no man can be saved without knowledge
of Christ; that the light of nature or of
conscience is wholly insufficient for saliva
ton. We judge from DR.. Patton's recent
article in the Forum that this doctrine is
still held to greater or less extent in the
Old School branch of the Presbyterian
Church. But we understand the Conqre-
gationdtiSt to declare that it is not held
among the Congregational churches. and
we certainly do not know Of any Congre-
gatlonal organ or representative who avOws
to-day belief in it. 1t was held and pub
lcly preached fifty, and perhaps twenty
i've, years ago. 1t is held, at least il is
preached, no longer. We might almost
call it a pefunct Orthodoxy
The New Orthodoxy holds that Christ
died for all men that the provision of sal
walton is adequate for all men; that no
man will be saved except by means of that
provision which has been made for saliva
ton through Jesus Christ; that Il knowl-
edge Of that salvation is not, however, es-
sentia.; and that whoever in this life sim
cereiy repents of his sins and seeks for
giveness and a better life, even from an
unknown God, will receive eternal life
through Christ that will be hereafter re-
vealed TO him.
The Newest Orthodoxy agrees with the
Old Orthodoxy and with the New Ortho-
Il, hot .
and that it can be saved only through the
provision made for salvation by Jesus
Christ, and it agrees with the New Or
thodoxy that this provision is adequate
for the salvation OF all men; but it holds,
more or less positively, that knowledge
of this provision is essential, and therefore
that knowledge viii be communicated in
another life to those who have never re-
oeiyed that knowledge in this.
This We believe to be correct and
colorless definition of three schools in the
churches of the Puritans-the Old Ortho-
doXy, the New Orthodoxy and the Newest
Orthodoxy. The present discussion in the
Congregational churches is between the
New Orthodoxy and the Newest Ortho-
doxy. Neither the Congregationalist,"
nor the Advance" nor any other repre-
sentative Congregational faith avows 4
belief in the Old Orthodoxy-that is.
limited salvation for an elect few. What,
then, is the difference between the New
Orthodoxy and the Newest Orthodoxy?
1t is this:
The New Orthodoxy believes thai every
man viii be saved who would have be-
Geved in Christ if he had known Christ
the Newest Orthodoxy believes that every
man will be saved who believes in Christ
when he knows Christ The New Orthe-
doxy holds that some heather will be
saved by Christ, will know and accept him
when they are saved; the Newest Ortho-
doxy holds that some heather will know
and accept Christ, and will be saved when
they know and accept him. And this is
all the difference between the New 0rtho-
doxy and the Newest Orthodoxy. Both
believe that the heather are lost and must
be saved, if at ALL by Christ; both believe
that Christ will save some of them; both
believe that Christ Will be revealed TO
them hereafter though he has not been
revealed here; both believe that the
heather so saved will sing the new song,
Worthy is the Lamb that was Slain"
But one school believes that the heather
viii be saved first and know Christ after
ward, and the other school believes that
the heather will know Christ first and be
saved afterward.
TWO SHORT STORIES.